Though it is only 3:10, the combination of 1) getting up too early 2) to tour an electrical contractor then 3) hustle to attend a fairly important but soul-sucking meeting all before 2:00 has apparently exhausted my brain and no useful work is coming out of the pipeline. I surrender.

me being full-on sickos.jpg about this Cloudflare setting, DIE, BOTS, DIE

How about Lashana Lynch? (I really do think it'd be AMAZING to have a female Bond but keep the movies just as male-gazey as ever. The guys will accept a lesbian Bond as long as they still get tits and ass.)

The Independent@the-independent.com · 13h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Chicago needs 15 million new cops to fund 15 million new NASCAR races. We're turning Lake Michigan into the first fully aquatic data center. Every kindergarten will be equipped with ToddlerSpotter. It's not ShotSpotter! It's better—SWAT will be alerted every time naptime needs to be enforced

The specific brainworms that make liberals think this is cute or fair or clever or whatever other quality they think this kind of handing power to people who want them dead represents need to be fumigated

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 19h ago

And this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

"I'm sorry if my comments hurt you" The most BS non-apology way to apologize. It's not taking ownership with "I'm sorry for my hurtful comments." It's making it about our reaction to his hate - with the implication that we're overreacting.

Seth Moulton’s anti-trans rhetoric comes back to haunt him in Senate debate with Ed Markey

"I deeply recognize your trauma, and I'm sorry if my comments hurt you," the congressman said.

advocate.com

God forbid a man has hobbies

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 10h ago

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

I always enjoy when a new contractor comes to our house for the first time and we get to watch the hope and joy slowly leave their body. (I kid. Most of them spend their whole career working on houses just as full of nasty surprises as ours is. Welcome to New England.)

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

I am dangerously tired this morning. Like, "it'd be really bad to forget myself and bite a contractor's head off" level of tired.

It was so damn depressing to watch every TV writer who was willing and eager to have open, intelligent conversations about their process get hounded off social by a combination of aggressive stans and belligerent wannabes defending the right to be a shithead to creatives

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 23h ago

I keep thinking about the discourse from the other day suggesting writers are gatekeeping writing information for ourselves and I just think back to 2019 when every writer was out there giving away writing advice until one by one each stopped because social media blows and we can't have nice things.

In case you hear either me or @nonelvis.com referring to home-renovation anguish over the next few weeks, this is what we're on about eccentricflower.com/utopia/20260...

just gonna say that if I ask you during a software demo how accessible your product is and you respond with "what do you mean, 'accessible,'" that's the wrong response

Going out to get lunch today because I won't be able to go out on my usual day tomorrow was a fine idea for my mental health. It was, however, a horrible idea for actually getting work done this afternoon.

Ooh, is it Why Your Team Sucks time of year already? defector.com/tag/wyts-2026

"Wow, that was reposted INSTANTLY after I posted it, must be a money-seeking account looking to get my attention who didn't even bother to look what the post was about" ... Yup.

"Your teammates are trying to reach you in Microsoft Teams" No, my grandboss is trying to reach me in Teams because he's the only person I actually have workplace contact with who hasn't gotten a clue that I don't keep Teams running and check it only under duress whereas I reply to email instantly

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

i asked my husband if he thought it was hot that im a linux administrator now and he said "a little" and then paused and said "you're already SO HOT"

she heard I was talking shit about her on the internet

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

Why the soups at Regular Lunch Dive are always shockingly good, I do not know, but today some genius has thrown baby lima beans and corn into the veggie barley and I am Here For It

Me: Why don't you just buy a bigger desk NPR: It's... that's not the point Me: It's only tiny because you bought a tiny one

I agree with this, and I think it typifies the tendency to get mad when all the possible solutions are imperfect and yet we still have to choose one. people want there to be one right solution with no downsides, and get weirdly furious when that doesn't exist.

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think it’s hard to argue either that lockdowns were bad policy or that learning loss wasn’t real. We just have a society that makes no allowances for emergencies and affords no chance of making up. A lot of people are very mad about the effects of that without having any inclination to change it.

Y’all are all trying to get me to reread “There Will Come Soft Rains” and listen, that story fucked me up when I was seven and has fucked me up every time I’ve read it since then, I am AT QUOTA

If Ray Bradbury came back as a zombie, the title of the story he would write would be "There Will Come Soft Brains"

sometimes fantasy authors come up with the concept "there are things older than history and prehistory.. otherworldly things the human mind cant comprehend" and for Lovecraft that means "monster so freaky it drives you insane" and for Tolkien it means "some guy named Tom with an extremely fine wife"

reminds me of this very good billboard in Philadelphia